Posted on 05/12/2009 8:07:18 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
The end of the Shi**y Kitty
With The Dictator in Chief Obama we will see many more retired to the scrap yard
yeah and I hope the “Kitty” is perserved somewhere where people can appreciate it
Every ship I was on was sunk in a sinkex!
Hats off to an Old Warhorse. My father deployed on her, and I was on the Halsey when we deployed with her CVBG in 1981.
Anyways, lots of memories, the least pleasant being on deck while we were following her as plane guard. Carriers have a certain stench.
One of mine became scrap and the other was in a sinkex.
The sinkex is more dignified.
The idea has been kicked around for a while that the Kitty Hawk should be sold to India. Here’s the logic.
China is hell bent on challenging the USN for the Pacific. However, in their rapid buildup, they have been stymied like the Russians before them in carrier design. They have purchased an old carrier from Russia to reverse engineer. However, their sights are set on the US.
India was disturbed by the Chinese buildup as well, and so also decided to build up its naval forces. In turn, this puts the squeeze on China, because it now has to look in two directions. And if the US sold India the Kitty Hawk, the Indians would leapfrog China in carrier tech. The Indians are very good at reverse engineering and shipbuilding, so in the mid-term could probably build a fleet of Kitty Hawk clones.
This would be a far greater threat to China than the USN, and force them to divert much of their military development to building far more expensive carriers than they wanted to, to be #3, instead of #2.
Meanwhile the USN would already have floating far more advanced carriers, and maintain our dominance of the Pacific while China and India fussed with each other.
Thank you for your service to your country, USS Kitty Hawk. Now, they name beautiful ships AFTER DAMNED STINKING POLITICIANS.
It makes me want to puke.
MARDET USS Kitty Hawk 1985-1987.
I loved that ship.
Great post, how interesting. Thanks.
One of the most impressive sights I’ve ever seen was when I was ten years old. In a park on the Delaware River in a crowd of people watching the Kitty Hawk passing under the Walt Whitman Bridge, heading out to sea after being launched from the New York Shipyard in Camden, NJ (I never understood the shipyards name). It was the biggest, most amazing thing I ever saw (although the gleaming white NS Savannah was cool being towed out). I never saw her again.
Shouldn't these numbers be roughly equal? Almost 41,000 more takeoffs than landings?
I hear what you're saying, but I can live with USS Ronald Reagan.
That ship was in pretty bad shape the last time on was on her 7 years ago and I have to tell you it's well past time she was put out to pasture.
When carriers return to home port, the air wing is launched and arrives on shore ahead of the ship.
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